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Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...

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Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual … affect a researcher's productivity. Among co-authors, however, there is strong and significant evidence that peer quality … affects a researcher's productivity. Loosing a co-author of average quality reduces the productivity of an average scientist …

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Basic Research and Sequential Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

problem of underinvestment in basic research is confirmed: spillovers of more general knowledge (and in this respect, more …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Estrin, Saul; Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Reynolds, Paul; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our …

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Fracking Growth

Fetzer, Thiemo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...

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Span of Control and Span of Activity

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

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